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posted by takyon on Friday December 14 2018, @11:53PM   Printer-friendly
from the FBI's-own-ploy dept.

Gizmodo:

Nearly two years before the U.S. government's first known inquiry into the activities of Reddit co-founder and famed digital activist Aaron Swartz, the FBI swept up his email data in a counterterrorism investigation that also ensnared students at an American university, according to a once-secret document first published by Gizmodo.

The email data belonging to Swartz, who was likely not the target of the counterterrorism investigation, was cataloged by the FBI and accessed more than a year later as it weighed potential charges against him for something wholly unrelated. The legal practice of storing data on Americans who are not suspected of crimes, so that it may be used against them later on, has long been denounced by civil liberties experts, who've called on courts and lawmakers to curtail the FBI's "radically" expansive search procedures.

The government does store information indefinitely that can be used against you later at a more convenient time.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 15 2018, @10:22AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 15 2018, @10:22AM (#774722)

    Exactly same computer, and PATA SSD, from my experience, just fill this up with urandom or zeros. It zeroes blocks as it can be seen in SSD's operating speed... usually seen if you have a pigsty in a filesystem like I have (a few thousands of files in home, few tens of thousands in downloads).